Miembrorobertstout

Hundreds of books that haven't been able to follow me through the Southwest, Mexico and Central America in boxes, storage lockers, friends' bookcases,basements and attics but also weighting down a televisionless home entertainment center in the Mexican pueblo where I live.

I'm a prize-winning journalist, novelist and poet who has written extensively about Mexico, human rights and baseball. My most recent books include Why Immigrants Come to America, Running Out the Hurt and A Perfect Throw. Essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in such diverse publications as The Monthly Review, Prick of the Spindle and Smoke.

Biefly, biographical

As a highschool junior varsity baseball pitcher I threw a no-hitter but lost the game 11-0. (Nine walks, three wild pitches, two hit batsmen, six fielders errors, two of them mine.)

As an Air Force enlisted man I received commendations as a bomb wing historian but never was awarded a good conduct medal.

During my undergraduate days at Mexico City College I edited the award-winning The Collegian newspaper, received the gold key honoring the year’s outstanding graduating senior and lost numerous arm-wrestling contests in a bar called The Baliliaka.

My journalistic career began as an editor with Western Publication in Austin, Texas, my literary career with a poem in The Beloit Poetry Journal and shortstories in Four Quarters and The Georgia Review.

Journalistic adventures were interrupted by a year in Europe, writing an unpublished novel in New Orleans, two marriages and the births of two sons and three daughters, six years as a business and government accountant, passionate participation in Rotisserie baseball leagues and community, fern bar and university appearances as an actor, director and gofer.